The Arkansas Tech University Brass Ensemble will present its Brass in the Clouds event just prior to sunset Saturday at Mount Nebo Sunset Point.

Indulge the music lover in you. Indulge the romantic in you. Go.

J.A. Clarke

Russellville

An oath of secrecy

A former Navy Seal has recently published a book in which he claims to tell the “true” story of how Osama Bin Laden was killed. According to his scenario, Bin Laden wasn’t armed and was shot in the head when he opened a bedroom door. Does anybody really care how he was killed or that he wasn’t armed? Certainly I wasn’t!

His violent terrorist acts cost the lives of more than 3,000 innocent people in America on 9/11, he put some of our military on display in front of TV cameras and then beheaded them for everybody to see. Did this diabolical person deserve to die with dignity? I hardly think so! Should he have been allowed to shoot at our military, maybe killing some of them, just so it could be said that he was shot in self-defense? Absolutely not! I feel nothing but relief that he’s finally dead.

The Navy Seal who wrote this book should be court-marshaled. He took an oath of secrecy when he joined this elite group of the military and he has dishonored that oath, the group he served with, the entire military and the American people. For what? Money, greed, making a name for himself? In my opinion, the only name he made for himself was treason — treason against everything he was supposed to stand for.

I give thanks to the leader of that Navy Seal’s group for taking no chances and shooting Bin Laden as soon as he had the opportunity, self-defense or not.